A study of the German Lutheran and Catholic immigrants in Canada, formerly residing in Tzarist and Soviet Russia
After Empress Katherine II of Russia issued a Manifesto in 1763, inviting European settlers to Russia, a substantial number of Germans immigrated and settled, with special privileges, on the left and right hand banks of the lower Volga River. The Napoleonic wars temporarily stopped this first influx...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40566 |